Sunday, August 28, 2016

I FINALLY have a weekend all to myself - no obligations, no projects, just me and my craft room. Unfortunately, my craft table was littered with the remnants of past cards. So on Saturday I slogged through some heavy-duty cleaning and organizing and today I was able to have a nice clean crafty space to mess up all over again.

Which ALSO meant that I actually have time do work on something other that design team commitments. BRING ON THE CHALLENGES! :)

The oh-so-fantastic Darnell is hosting her NBUS challenge again and I went rummaging around to see what stamp sets I had in my stash that hadn't been inked up.

I ordered this set because I was blown away by the beeeeeautiful sentiments, especially the one on this card.

I've seen many a sympathy stamp set, but I haven't found one that takes on the anniversary of a sad thing. I never know quite what to say on these occasions, but this sentiment encapsulates it perfectly.

Friday, August 19, 2016

Today, I'm sharing a chic black & white number I created for the latest STAMPlorations challenge:

Here's how STAMPlorations challenges work:

> Use either the sketch OR the theme OR both

> Use any product/stamp/paper you like - STAMPlorations products NOT required

This particular challenge is open until the end of the month, so get crafting already!

For my card, I used both the theme and the sketch.

Ok.... well I'm technically saying I used markers... event though I think it might be a "pen". I took the Foiled Again ARTplorations stencil and randomly outlined areas using a Faber Castell Pitt Artist...erm... marker? fiiiine pen. I filled in some of the outlined areas, and left others blank.

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Heyyyy you guuuuuuuys! Guess What?! (Well, ok I've already told you in the title, and you clicked through, so presumably you don't have to guess at all because you already know, but now I've already typed the question and so am committed to answer it.)

My new stamp set gets released today and there's a GIVEAWAY! Or I should say GIVEAWAYS because there is one right here, and one on the STAMPlorations blog.

I hope you like the new stamp set! And if you do, it's available in the shop for 10% off until August 15! Make sure you go swing by the STAMPlorations blog to see all of the new sets being released this week.

Sunday, August 7, 2016

I've been playing around with making blackout poetry (I've got a few samples of my work posted to Instagram) and had a custom request to put one of my designs onto a card. So I'm just popping in quickly to share the result with you since I think it's pretty neat.

If you're not familiar with blackout poetry, it's made by taking a page of a book and finding a "poem" or phrase within the page by blacking out the rest of the letters. This poem reads:"She no longer grappled with the lessons set before her and she yielded to none"I blacked out the woman's silhouette using a sharpie and the shimmery blue background was made with InkaGold. I'm going to link my card up to:613 Avenue Create - Anything GoesWe Love 2 Create - Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

I'm going to start this post by thanking allllllll of the people who took time to join in on my 30th birthday bash. It made me feel SO special to see a whopping 42 cards linked up in just under 2 weeks.Have I told you lately how AMAZING you are?! Seriously. <3 you all! Last night I did a live stream on Periscope to draw names for the prize packages. You can view the whole thing HERE if you so choose. For those of you who tuned in, I looooved getting to chat with you! For those of you who didn't - you should totally come find me on Periscope so when I do crafty chats and tutorials in the future we can get to know each other even more!

Prize 1 & 2 - STAMPlorations Gift Cards

I'm
giving away 2 gift cards to STAMPlorations for $20 each (a big thanks
to Shery for donating the second card - what a sweetie!!)

And - BONUS - I decided last night that I was ALSO going to give these two winners my brand-new not-even-released yet stamp set Buttercups & Butterflies. Shhhhh! I'm probably not supposed to show it off yet, but I'm kind of excited. This will be hitting the STAMPlorations store

The winners of these two prize packages are:

CAT CRAIG

JULIE BEECH

Prize 3 - A complete Fossilized Amber Set

The winner of this prize package is:

VINITA JAIN

Prize 4 - 2 packs of Copic Caio Markers

The winner of this prize package is:

KAROLA

Prize 5 - A Bundle of Fun

The winner of this prize package is: LISA B.Congrats to all the winners!! If you've won, please be sure to email me with your address at bexcruger AT gmail.COMAgain, thank you ALL for helping to make my birthday even better! <3 <3 Stay tuned for in the next couple of weeks because I maaaaaay be doing another giveaway of my Buttercups & Butterflies set sometime soon. :)

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Hello Crafty Friends! I was so overwhelmed by all the amazing designs you created to help celebrate my 30th birthday!! I'll be drawing winners tonight at 8 p.m. Central Time via Periscope. So if you wanna come hang out with me LIVE (that's right, you get unfiltered Becca!!!) for a little while whilst I draw the winners, you can find me at

Monday, August 1, 2016

It's a new month! And that means rainbows! And glitter!! Right?!Well, ok, not necessarily, I guess... but for my purposes we're going to pretend that a new month means rainbows and glitter because that's exactly what I've got to show you today.

With the option of Dragonflies.But since I don't have any dragonfly stamps you get to see a boat instead. Taaa daaaaa!

This card began when I pulled this piece of watercolor paper that I had created an ombre rainbow on and then didn't know what to do with it. I stared at and decided to go all happy and nautical.

I stamped and cut out some images from the Simon Says Stamp Sailing stamp set. I colored the boat with Spectrum Noir Markers and then I used some stripedy paper and sponged it with Distress Inks. To finish it all out, I added some sequin stars for additional shimmer and Wink of Stellad my clouds.

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I love all things vintage and distressed, but also find beauty in the simplicity of clean lines. I'm inspired by the grungy, the hand-me-downs, the upcycled and so that's what you'll find most of my cards to be. But I do like to mix it up and create clean, humorous cards too! Crafting evolves with new techniques and the latest product. This blog speaks about me, a small-town girl with glitter on her fingers and a love of cardmaking in her heart.